A Tale of Two Book Groups
The Westmoreland Public Library hosts two book groups. One group reads a variety of topics, alternating between fiction and non-fiction. This group meets on the second Tuesday of the month at 4 pm.
The other group focuses on the specific genres of Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy. This group meets on Saturday mornings at 11 am.
Below are the current reading selections for each group, the next meeting date, a list of upcoming selections, and a list of past selections.
The library provides copies of the month's selected titles.
The other group focuses on the specific genres of Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy. This group meets on Saturday mornings at 11 am.
Below are the current reading selections for each group, the next meeting date, a list of upcoming selections, and a list of past selections.
The library provides copies of the month's selected titles.
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Next Book Group meeting will be
August 11th, 2026, at 4 pm in the library. Reading Selection for discussion
at the May Meeting: Slow Horses by Mick Herron 
London, England: Slough House is where washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their failed careers. The “slow horses,” as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated there. Maybe they botched an Op so badly they can’t be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle—not unusual in this line of work. One thing they have in common, though, is they want to be back in the action. And most of them would do anything to get there─even if it means having to collaborate with one another.
When a young man is abducted and his kidnappers threaten to broadcast his beheading live on the Internet, the slow horses see an opportunity to redeem themselves. But is the victim really who he appears to be? Reading List:
August Slow Horses by Mick Herron September A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst October Less by Andrew Sean Greer November Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan December The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Past Selections: Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Walking with the Great Apes Sy Montgomery All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage Major Petttigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! by Fannie Flagg The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende Braiding Sweetgrass, Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald Maus by Art Spiegelman The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner Code Name Blue Wren by Jim Popkin Weyward by Emilia Hart Isaac’s Storm: A Man, A Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux |
Next Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Book Group meeting will be TBD in the library. Reading Selection for discussion
at the next Meeting: 
The last book we read was Fledgling by Octavia Butler.
Reading List: TBD The Rest is To Be Determined Come to the next meeting to help decide the reading list! We can't choose books you want to read without your input. Past reads: Carrie by Stephen King Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier Murderland by Caroline Fraser King Sorrow by Joe Hill We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Fledgling by Octavia Butler |